In brief: Laser-snake slices through radioactive nuclear reactor, UK carbon footprint rises after long term decline

James Parsons

04 May 2018

Also in the news: Laser-snake slices nuclear core, UK carbon footprint on the rise from imports, English waste exports hit 4.2 million tonnes, Swansea Tidal Lagoon back in the limelight, energy efficiency programme launched in Scotland and more

OC Robotics' laser-snake in action at Winfrith

Nuclear laser snake gets to work in Dorset

A laser-cutting robotic snake has been put to work on the highly radioactive core of a nuclear reactor in Dorset.

One of Magnox’s Winfrith nuclear reactors, the helium-cooled Dragon reactor, is being disassembled but technicians needed to employ specialists OC Robotics to remove the reactor’s purge gas pre-cooler.